21-Jul-2006
Open Democracy
Is South American integration doomed, as much of the press reports? Or is there steady progress towards wider and deeper union, as the agenda of the Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina, on 20-21 July, suggests?
21-Jul-2006
Prensa Latina
The free trade agreement between the US and Central America will have a negative effect on the human right to live, according to a thesis by regional analysts in Guatemala.
21-Jul-2006
Business Times
International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said Malaysia’s existing regulations on IP protection provide adequate protection for US investors, helping its negotiation on free trade agreement (FTA) with the US.
20-Jul-2006
Economic Times
A CECA with EU may look like an alphabet soup, but would spell a whole new range of opportunities for Indian enterprises and professionals. High on its success with the comprehensive economic co-operation agreement (CECA) with Singapore, the government is now planning a similar deal with the 25-member European Union.
20-Jul-2006
People’s Daily
The private sector in Zimbabwe has been urged to exploit the various bilateral trade agreements that the country has signed with its trading partners.
20-Jul-2006
Global Research
With the thorough integration of the Canadian and US economies through NAFTA, and a common military command and control structure, Canadian sovereignty will cease to exist by definition.
20-Jul-2006
People’s Daily
Legislators in Chile’s lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved a free trade agreement with China. The agreement, China’s first with a Latin American nation, now passes to the Senate for final ratification.
19-Jul-2006
Economic Times
The standoff between India and the Asean over the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has started rubbing over to India’s bilateral relations with individual Asean members.
19-Jul-2006
San Francisco Chronicle
The United States is the sole remaining large WTO member that hasn’t signed a bilateral pre-admission deal with Russia.
19-Jul-2006
Dominican Today
Dominican ambassador in Panama, Virgilio Alvarez Bonilla, affirmed that governments from both nations are making advances in the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement, which in his esteem, will be ready to be implemented by the beginning of next year.
19-Jul-2006
Magic City Morning Star
"It is bad enough that we are asked to support agreements that will ship more jobs overseas, that undermine our environmental standards, and that ask us to stick our head in the sand over serious human rights violations - but it is simply unacceptable to ask this Congress to support legislation that could potentially undermine the security of our nation," said US Congressman Mike Michaud.
